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Beltway sniper victims memorial at Brookside Gardens
Wheaton, Maryland

Brookside Gardens Reflection Terrace

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.
Zainab Muhammad, Grimaldi Baez, and Tania María Ríos Marrero harvest zinnias for Truelove Seeds.
gardens

Keep Your Quarantine Garden Growing With These 8 Unique Seed Companies

Grow the plants tailored to your region, passion, or heritage.
Reina Gattuso March 5, 2021
Bridge.
Nanjing, China

Xuanwu Lake Park

Once an imperial lake garden, anyone can now visit this city park.
Bamboo Playhouse.
List

9 Places That Might Help You Find a Little Calm

Desperate times call for deep breaths.
Jonathan Carey January 8, 2021
The stone archway.
Lemont, Illinois

Lincoln Park Nursery Ruins

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.
Italian immigrants brought fig trees to the northeastern United States, where they surprisingly thrived.
gardens

The Italian Immigrants Who Grew Fig Trees in Unlikely Places

A grassroots group is creating a living library of these backyard gardens.
Reina Gattuso December 16, 2020
Edinburgh, Scotland

Bust of Sir Patrick Geddes

A sculpture in a secluded garden honors one of Edinburgh's most innovative thinkers and city planners.
Les Hortillonnages have been cultivated since the Middle Ages.
farms

In France, Farmers Still Tend Age-Old Island Gardens

Les Hortillonnages d'Amiens survived a plan to pave it over.
Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey October 20, 2020
The Zwinger Gardens
Olomouc, Czechia

The Zwinger Gardens

Once home to artillery, this garden offers more peace today than it did during its war-torn past.
The Inuvik Community Greenhouse was once a hockey arena.
gardens

Inside the Arctic Greenhouses Where the Summer Sun Never Sets

A greenhouse network provides locals with everything from jalapeños to flowers.
Marina Wang September 22, 2020
Stockholm University Arboretum
Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm University Arboretum

A collection of trees from various corners of the world call Stockholm University home.
Norfolk, Virginia

Mary Hardy MacArthur Memorial

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.
Centrepiece sculpture.
Campbeltown, Scotland

Linda McCartney Memorial Garden

An appropriate memorial dedicated to a well-renowned figure of Campbeltown.
Mill Brae Garden
Larne, Northern Ireland

Mill Brae Memory Garden

An uninspiring grass verge transformed into a therapeutic community garden.
Members of a women's volunteer service in Flushing march into their Victory Garden.
gardens

When World War II Started, the U.S. Government Fought Against Victory Gardens

Home gardeners planted despite an initial federal policy of leaving farming to the professionals.
April White August 5, 2020
Taconic Mountain Ramble Zen Gardens
Castleton, Vermont

Taconic Mountain Ramble Zen Gardens

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.
Community groups, or "delegations" to the Boston Tree Party, planted pairs of apple trees in public spaces around Boston.
gardens

400 Years After Its First Apple Farm, Boston Remains an Urban Orchard

Urban canners and tree-planting groups are maintaining an heirloom tradition.
Reina Gattuso July 8, 2020
Laurel Hill House.
Lorton, Virginia

Laurel Hill House

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.